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BOOK - A History of Kitchener, Ontario (Canada).
By W. V. (Ben) Uttley
Originally published by The Chronicle Press, Waterloo, Ontario 1937
This historical reprint by Global Heritage Press, 2008
This facsimile reprint of A History of Kitchener, Ontario by W. V. Uttley is a faithful reproduction of the original work, including all of the original content, and not changed in any way other than the addition of a new title page and foreword.
Uttley was eminently qualified to research and write the history of Kitchener (formerly known as Berlin) insofar as he was a respected local journalist and newspaper owner. He owned three Berlin/Kitchener newspapers that eventually published under the single name of the Berlin Daily Record. Retiring in October of 1919, Uttley sold his newspaper interests to W.J. Motz and William D. Euler, who renamed it The Kitchener Daily Record. A History of Kitchener, Ontario was written late in Uttley's career. It was published in 1937, just seven years before his passing in 1944.
Global Heritage Press prepared the historical reprint using the original leather-bound first edition that was owned by former Canadian Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon. W. L. MacKenzie King. King's book included a personal letter from the author which is bound into it, ahead of the title page. In that letter, Uttley thanks King for purchasing his book and writes that he hopes that "the book comes up to expectations". We reproduced that letter and have included it on the page following the new foreword.
We are pleased to make A History of Kitchener, Ontario available to the public once again, and are confident that the book will come up to your expectations.
The extensive table of contents and list of illustrations (below) best describe the content of this fine local history.
433 Pages
6" X 9"
Detailed table of contents
Detailed list of illustrations
Hardcover
Originally published by The Chronicle Press, Waterloo, Ontario 1937
This historical reprint by Global Heritage Press, 2008
ISBN 978-1-897446-39-3
CONTENTS
- First Settlements in Waterloo County
- Joseph Schneider founder of the City Benjamin Eby, Samuel Eby, Indian Sam Eby, and John Erubacher
- The First Mennonite Church
- Early Form of Municipal Government
- The German Mechanics
- A Village in the Making
- St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Zion Evangelical Church
- Trinity United Church
- Church of the Good Shepherd and Carmel Church
- Glimpses of the Eighteen-Forties
- The City’s Post-Office
- The Stage Coaches
- Organization of ‘Waterloo County Officials etc
- The Climb Industries Railways a Bank and Roadways
- The Banton Street Baptist Church
- Citizens Incorporated a Village in 1854
- The Stadthalle and other matters
- St Mary’s Catholic Church and daughter churches
- St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
- The High School and Collegiate
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Alma Street Church of the United Brethren in Christ
- The Catholic Separate Schools
- Citizens of the Sixties and other notes
- Merchants from the Fifties (1850's) till the Seventies (1870's)
- The Evangelical Lutheran St Peter’s Church
- Townward
- St Jerome’s College
- Under a Town Charter
- Jacob Y Shantz the Colonizer
- The: Bethany Mennonite Church
- Association Football
- The Turning Point
- The Public Schools
- The Tempo Quickened
- The Busy Nineties (1890's)
- The Musical Society’s Band and Musicians
- The General Hospital—YMCA—The Orphanage
- City Parks
- The Kirmes
- Grand River Railway—First Automobile—Rubber Footwear
- The First Church of Christ Scientist
- The King Street Baptist Church
- The Story of the Waterwork
- The Euler Business College
- Merchants of the Eighties (1890's) and After
- Banks and Bankers
- The Twentieth Century—New Industries
- Beet Sugar
- Niagara Power—Inception of the Project
- The Lawn Bowling Club
- St Matthew’s Lutheran Church
- Experiments—Made-in-Berlin Exhibition—Shirt Companies Etc
- Wm H Breithaupt CE and Grand River Control
- The Pentecostal Tabernacle
- The Power Investigators Report—Arrival of Niagara Power
- Women’s Activities
- The St Lawrence Seaway
- The Waterloo Historical Society
- Berlin Becomes a City
- The Leaven of Progress
- The First English Lutheran Church
- The Freeport Sanatorium
- Before and After the Great War
- The Board of Trade
- Additional Industries
- Societies and Service Clubs
- Walter P Zeller
- Brief References
- Comment
- Errata
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ILLUSTRATIONS
- Berlin Original Municipality
- Abraham Weber’s Conestoga
- Pioneers’ Memorial Tower Pioneer Joseph Schneider’s Home Six-Horse Conestoga
- The Cast in ‘The Trail of the Conestoga"
- Bishop C F Derstine and the First Mennonite Church
- View of Three Mennonite Churches
- Jacob Railer Frederick Gaukel Chairs made by Mr Hailer 100 years ago
- Jacob Y Shantz
- Shantz Sawmill
- Rev F W Bindemann the Rev A Orzen The Evangelical Lutheran St Paul’s Church
- St Paul’s Church Choir
- Zion Evangelical Churci The Rev C A Hirschman Second Zion Evangelical Church First Zion Evangelical Church
- The Rev S R Kneehtel The Rev J P Hauch
- Zion Church Choir
- The Rev Clarke Logan Trinity United Church the Rev G F Barthel, the Rev W J Zimmerman
- Church of the Good Shepherd
- The Rev John W Spiers the Rev Otto C Schuetze the Carmel Church
- Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity
- John Hoffman The 4th Post-Office
- Reinold Lang, Louis Ercithaupt I, Wm Simpson, Emil Vogelsang,
- Waterloo County Court House, Judge E V Clement, Registrar G V
Hilborn
- Waterloo County’s Old Folks’ Home
- Waterloo County Council—19$
- A Political Cartoon of 1864
- The Rev Clarence M Keen the Benton Street Baptist Church
- Berlin in 1856, the Windmill
- The First Town Hall
- The Rev. Wm. Kloepfer, CR, the Very Rev C B Meyer, CR, St
Mary’s Catholic Church
- St Mary’s Church Choir
- The Rev Joseph Samborski, CR, St Mary’s High School
- The Sacred Heart Church St Mary’s Hospital Board
- St Mary’s RC Hospital
- St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Alma Street United Brethren Church
- The late Principal James W Conner WA the late Principal David
Forsyth BA
- Principal R N Merritt BA, Sec-Treas H W Brown BA
- Collegiate and Vocational School Board
- The Teaching Staff
- Kitchenor-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School
- The Rev F N H Mills Rector Church of St John the Evangelist
- Parish Hail of Church of St John the Evangelist St John’s Church
(Anglican) Parsonage
- St Mary’s Separate School
- Sacred heart School
- St Joseph’s Schsol
- St John’s Separate School
- The late Thomas Pearce, Inspector
- The Public Library
- The Rev Herman A Sperling DD First St Peter’s Church
- St Peter’s Adult Choir
- St Peter’s Lutheran Church
- Vogelsang’s Button Works
- St Jerome’s college 1864
- The Rev W 0 Borho CR, The Rev Louis Funeken CR DD
- St Jerome’s College in Duke Street
- St Jerome’s College Gymnasium
- The late Sheriff John Motz
- Economical Fire Insurance Company’s first offices
- H F J Jackson Win Oelschlager, Hugo Kranz
- Con Gerbig “Mr Silence”
- The Rt Hon W L Mackenzie King at Home of the Hon W D Euler
- The Kaufman Planing Mill
- The Rev Sidney S Shantz, the Bethany Mennonite Church
- The Rangers of 1885, the Toonerville Trolley
- George C H Lang, Louis L Lang
- The Lang Tanning Company’s Tannery
- C Ahrens Company’s Shoe Factory
- George Rumpel Felt Manufacturer
- Hartman Krug L T Breithaupt
- The H Krug Furniture Company Factory
- C A Ahren, P Hibner
- Arthur Pcquegnat, C B Dunke, Sheriff Dr H 0 Lackner, H L Janzen
- The Members: Public School Board
- Suddaby School Staff
- King Edward School Staff
- Courtland Avenue School Staff J F Carmicha& School Staff
- Margaret Avenue School Staff
- Sheppard School Staff Miss Alice Cowan
- Victoria School Staff
- John Fennell, E P Clement, Louis McBrine, and W G Cleghorn
- West King Street in 1880
- Town Hall of 1869 the McGarvin Trunk Factory
- Cairnes & McBrine Factory, Brown & Erb’s Factory
- The Schuetzenverein
- J M Schneider Founder J M Schneider Ltd His First Plant 1890-1912
- J M Schneider Ltd Present Plant (1937), The L Mcprine Co’s Factory
- Founders First Rubber Co., George Schlee, Jacoh Kaufman, A L Breithaupt, Louis Weber
- The Berlin Rubber Co Plant, the H A Lippert Furniture Factory
- Dr J F Honsberger
- John Roat’s Commercial Hotel
- South Queen Street from Walper House corner North Queen Street
from American Hotel corner Tourist Camp in Victoria Park
- Berlin Hockey Team
- An Early Fire Brigade
- Ex-Chief O’Neill N Asmussen ex-MPP, H R Steppler’s Hotel
- The Famous Berlin Band
- Kitchener Ladies’ Band, Kitchener Boys’ Band
- Band of Scots Fusiliers
- Kitchener Waterloo Hospital
- K W Hospital Commission the City Orphanage
- A Group of Five City Buildings
- The Municipal Market
- Oscar Lauber
- The Local Board of Health
- The First Church of Christ Scientist King Street Baptist Church the
Rev Ewart G Hinds
- The First Water Commissioners, Shoemaker Ave Pump House
- Members of Commission in 1934, The Doon Twines Limited
- J C Breithaupt Marcel Pequegnat, John S Anthes, T H Riede
- View of Horticultural Show
- S R Ernst, K Jansen, H W Shoemaker, M C Cressrnan
- Lieut George Ziegler, David Knipfel, H Leslie, Staebler Lloyd Knipfel
- J B C Forsyth, Forsyth Shirt Factory
- Merchants Rubber Co Plant
- A R Kaufman Kaufman Rubber Works, W T Sass, The Interior Hardwood Company’s Plant
- E W B Snider, D B Detweiler, S Adam Beck, Old YMCA
- C K Hagedorn, George Lippert, August R Lang, David Gross
- The Euler Rink of Bowlers, Club of Municipal Golf Course
- Head Office The Economical Mutual Fire Insurance Co
- St Matthew’s Lutheran Church
- The Rev John Schmieder Pastor
- E D Lang and R D Lang
- Lang Bros Store
- Goudie’s Department Store and Founder
- Wm H Breithaupt, CE., Mayor J Albert Smith, MPP Ex-Mayor
Edward E Ratz, Ex-Mayor C Mortimer Bezeau
- A Cluster of Kitchener Homes
- Members of the Light Commission
- The Freeport Sanatorium
- ‘‘Chicopee” Residence of Mr and Mrs H J Sims, The Young Women’s
Christian Association
- Fashions of 1861 and 1911
- W H Schmalz First Mayor of the City
- F W Snyder Harry Lincoln, Chas. H Janzen, A W Sandrock
- C N Weber, L 0 Breithaupt, Waterloo Trust and Savings Company
- W H Dunker, F G Ball, HJ Ball, A E Dunker
- Dominion Tire Company
- The Rock Garden
- The Rev A C Jacobi, the Rev J Maurer, DD, the First English
Lutheran Church
- Sterling Avenue Mennonite Church, the Rev U K Weber
- The City Council of 1937 snd Officials
- City Hall
- The Granite Club
- Board of Trade A S Capwell
- J W Scott, R A Dietrich A W Boos
- H Wolfhard, Walter P Zeller, Leo P Leyes Cenotaph
- Air View of Kitchener (c1937)
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6" X 9"
Detailed table of contents
Detailed list of illustrations
Hardcover
Originally published by The Chronicle Press, Waterloo, Ontario 1937
This historical reprint by Global Heritage Press, 2008
ISBN 978-1-897446-39-3
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